Lake Cuck-Amok

The Male Re-Training Party's re-election platform could not have been more direct: "For Men: The Last Resort. "Not a lot of fanfare-after their landslide win-not much of what had been underway for a… Lue lisää The Male Re-Training Party's re-election platform could not have been more direct: "For Men: The Last Resort. "Not a lot of fanfare-after their landslide win-not much of what had been underway for a year or two now treated as newsworthy. In dribs and drabs, women received Report Without Explanation summonses, packed up their males, reported as ordered. A few weeks later: The Re-Trained Men were returned to their communities; life went on. Bob had always been very well behaved. A Model Male, really Or Sylvia would not have permitted the marriage. And-as the law required-Bob was absolutely surrendered. Those little sparks of temper and tone, however, spikes of disobedience, albeit mild, the occasional sexual churlishness or resistance-Sylvia had to admit-she did find them. . . something of a bother. Still, in the weeks before they made the trip up to the lake, she watched him with just a wisp of wistfulness, knowing that this "version" of Bob now had a clear expiration date: No man ever came back from Lake Cuck-Amok-or any of the retraining resorts-unchanged, after all; that was the point. On their return, he would be not merely "surrendered" but simply, as the updated statutes required, utterly and permanently, "broken. " Notwithstanding how completely sodden Sylvia's panties were, just at the thought of the new vistas Bob's retraining would open up for her, she admitted as well-at least to herself-that there would be some loss entailed there too. But then-scant days into their intake and evaluation-things just went radically wrong: Sylvia's actual right to custody of her husband was questioned, essentially put on trial. A different version of Bob? Fine; things change. She was going to lose Bob? No. Just. No. Sylvia's friend Ada has an. . . acquaintance, a lesbian former-lover, from her college days: A retired Marine Corps Judge Advocate General, now a high-powered attorney; people mess with Bobbie at their peril. Will that be enough for Sylvia to retain custody of her husband? And given that-the law is the law-"broken Bob must be," what happens if this team of friends actually do succeed in saving Bob from the staff at Lake Cuck-Amok? The law is the law, he still has to be. . . broken.